She has to be kidding me. Out of everything she could have wished for, she chose this. I told her she was definitely too old for it but, as expected, Grandmother insisted on wing suiting. After she had blown out her birthday candles, she revealed the wish, which she was thinking of. Everyone at the party started laughing believing it was a joke. But as she pulled out the tickets, the laughter turned into silence.
This 75-year old icon had the audacity to make fun of me, just because I was scared of the height. Without any doubt, she jumped off the edge of the cliff spreading her arms and legs wide open. “I didn’t take my medications this morning!” was the last sentence I heard before she left my sight. Everything around me stood still and seemed to take my very last breath. Shellshocked, I did the first movement that came to my mind … I jumped! In the corner of my eye I saw granny having the time of her life. “Are you crazy? You might die!” I yelled in an attempt to get her attention. Obviously, she did not hear me. There she was, many meters below me where she continuously turned, as if she had never done anything else before. In this very moment I realized that she was kidding me. Outraged, I couldn’t think straight anymore. “Are you serious? I only jumped because of you and you have nothing better to do than doing your damn jokes.”, I screamed.
As soon as I had landed, I madly ran to grandma and confronted her. She burst out into laughter and said: “You were always this gullible.”. Unbelievable. Since this day it has become her birthday tradition to tell everyone how she had fooled her wimp of a grandson. If you don’t believe me, check her Instagram profile for proof: @flying_granny
written by Ropace, year 10, December 2021